I’ve been thinking about this for a while and I think I finally understand why nobody is truly willing to fight for Nigeria.
We have no real nationalism.
Not the shallow flag waving kind I mean the deep kind. The kind that makes you feel like what happens to a stranger in Kano is your problem too even though you’ve never left Lagos
And it makes sense when you think about it. Nigeria was never built around shared identity. No culture of honouring sacrifice. No moment where Nigeria looked at the people who bled for it and said we see you and that is why bad leaders will keep winning.
@kenchubik@Emarged You don't need to do this much before understanding why such doesn't exist there already.
If you're feeling generous, you can donate to a charity cause.
@sajim_ True, but zobo and tamarind are often perceived as cheap homemade drinks.
Commercial pricing is tricky, compounded by our electricity situation. Brands that already produce commercially do so at a conservative scale due to these.
This sounds really cruel until you realize a war has been happening in the north east for about two decades now and we have a refugee crisis right now in this country. I can bet you’ve partied in these two decades.
When people say “they are close to Lagos”, “they are now in Oyo state”, I really don’t understand
The places they’ve been attacking are not as important?
The ongoing Iranian war is exposing how poorly informed Nigerians are on geopolitics, and reflects a deeper gap in our geopolitical literacy. With history removed from our school curiculum and a weak reading culture, many use religion as the yardstick to review global political issues, conflate the Arabs for Persians, misunderstand the Sunni - Shia sectarian dynamics, and absorb Western narratives and propaganda wholesomely. We definitely can't distinguish between resistance movements and terrorism. To an average Nigerian, whoever the US/CNN/FOX calls a terrorist is indeed a terrorist, especially if the person is from the Middle East. LOL